Tuscarora

The Tuscarora are a Native American tribe and the sixth member of the Iroquois confederacy of New York, which they joined in 1722. The Tuscarora originated in the Great Lakes region, and, well before the arrival of the Europeans, they migrated south and settled in North Carolina and Virginia. There, they first encountered the English settlers, and, from 1711 to 1713, they went to war with the English and their Indian allies. The war forced the remaining Tuscarora to settle in New York and western Pennsylvania, and their ancestral and cultural connections with the Iroquois led the Tuscarora to join the Iroquois in 1722. During the American Revolutionary War, the Tuscarora and their historical Oneida allies sided with the United States against the British and the four other Iroquois tribes. In the following centuries, the Tuscarora continued to live in upstate New York, and there are 17,412 Tuscarora in both the USA and Canada.